Brett Kavanaugh: Second allegation made against court nominee
A second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against President Donald Trump's US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
She alleges Mr Kavanaugh exposed his genitals at a dormitory party and thrust them in her face, causing physical contact without consent.
The judge has denied both allegations, labelling the latest "a smear".
Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who last week came forward as the woman alleging Mr Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982, has agreed to testify about the allegation at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.
Pollution pushes Mongolia's herders to reconsider city life
Bright lights of Ulaanbaatar have been overshadowed by smog worse than Beijing, prompting calls to modernise countryside so millions can return
More than a decade ago, Darii Garam, 76, moved to Ulaanbaatar with her children so they could go to school and find work beyond herding animals in the countryside. Now, the pollution, set to worsen in the approaching winter, is getting to her.
“Even just going outside for a second, opening your door, your home fills with smoke, your clothes, everything smells like it,” she says moving around her ger, a spacious and neatly kept traditional Mongolian yurt, to make tea.
Darii lives on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, an area known as the ger district or sometimes, affectionately, the “g district”, where rural migrants have collected over the last two decades. Here, gers and houses built out of wood and other scrap material creep up the hills that box in Ulaanbaatar. Every winter, as many as 220,000 households burn coal to stay warm. When families can’t afford coal they sometimes burn tyres and other scraps
Protesting against illegal land sales comes with potentially deadly consequences in Ukraine
In Odessa, Kim Sengupta finds an activist community living in fear
Kim Sengupta Odessa
On Saturday afternoon, Oleg Mihalik was among hundreds of protestors who tore down the fencing around what they say is an illegal construction project despoiling the seafront in Odessa, southern Ukraine. Seven hours later he was lying in a pool of blood after being gunned down.
Mihalik was shot as he was returning to his home in the city centre, just over 100m from the headquarters of Odessa Regional Police.
He managed to stagger to the front door where a neighbour found him and called an ambulance. Doctors found at the hospital that the bullet had gone through his arm into his chest, just missing his heart.
Hong Kong bans pro-independence political party
The party founded by independence activist Andy Chan is the first political party to be outlawed in the city's history. Police had sought a ban on the outfit in July, citing "national security" concerns.
The Hong Kong government on Monday banned a political party advocating independence from China, citing national security concerns.
The Hong Kong National Party, founded by independence activist Andy Chan, is the first political party to be banned in Hong Kong since it's handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.
Jeffie Lam, a journalist with the South China Morning Post newspaper, said on Twitter the decision by the city's security chief John Lee came just 10 days after Chan's party submitted a reply, arguing why it should not be outlawed.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten to avenge military parade attack
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to exact "deadly and unforgettable" vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf Arab states of backing the gunmen.
Saturday's assault, one of the worst ever against the most powerful force of the Islamic Republic, struck a blow at its security establishment at a time when the United States and its Gulf allies are working to isolate Tehran.
"Considering (the Guards') full knowledge about the centres of deployment of the criminal terrorists' leaders..., they will face a deadly and unforgettable vengeance in the near future," the Guards said in a statement carried by state media.
US tariffs on $200bn in Chinese goods take effect
The tit-for-tat moves are the latest escalation in trade war between the world's two largest economies.
A new round of tariffs between China and the United States came into effect on Monday in further escalation of the ongoing trade row between the world's two largest economies.
The US tariffs will affect Chinese products including food seasonings, baseball gloves and parts for industrial machinery, while US-made chemicals, clothes and car parts will be subject to the Chinese levies.
On September 17, US President Donald Trump said he would impose 10 percent tariffs on about $200bn worth of Chinese products, prompting retaliatory measures from Beijing.
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